My first day organizing a children’s festival

It was Saturday morning. I woke up at 10 (I usually get up earlier to take advantage of my time, but this occasion I decided to relax a bit more, as I’d been very tired with that exhausting school week), ate my breakfast and took a bath. My mom was waiting for me; she asked me to accompany her to go to the supermarket.

After doing the shopping, my mom leaved me at the primary school because I had to help with the organization of the children’s festival. The first thing I did, once I’d greeted the few pals that were there at time, is help Vale Marun to fix the roulette.

Later, Gissel arrived and (as always) she started talking and talking and talking and talking. She has always something to say. Never stops. The point is that she was telling us the problem that took place with the cokes. This conversation was interrupted by Vale Marun’s blond wig and Roman toga, followed by the woman’s mask. It was so funny to see her with all this costume. She was unrecognizable, very strange but funny.

We were carrying some desks from one room to another bigger to make the ghost train when Flor come to ask me if I could take care of the “kermes” (I hope it’s well-spelled). The truth is that I didn’t know anything about that activity, and she was really a “great help” (sarcastically talking). She told me “you have this, this and that. Be creative and do something. Bye”. I was astonished. I even don’t know how it’s spelled that word, so you can imagine how creative I should be to organize that activity from which I had no idea about.

With a green bucket and 2 apples I prepared a game that consisted on children biting an apple that was floating in water to win a prize (which I decided it will be a box of candies). It was not as easy as it sounds. To bite the apple children had to submerge their heads in the water (hopefully it was a beautiful sunny day because if it had been a cold cloudy one children could have caught a cold). This was a very original game. It was funny to see the children trying to get that apple in less than 3 opportunities.

Another game was the one with 3 vessels and one ball. I put the ball under one vessel and mixed the three of them in order to confuse the children so that they didn’t guess were the ball was. But children were far cunning and they always knew which vessel had the ball and received a chewing “chupetín” as a reward. But I had some difficulties to carry on this game because the ball, apart from not being the small enough, it was painted with a fluorescent orange colour that was easily distinguished trough the vessel, that’s why I had to put one vessel upon another. Furthermore, these vessels were the white plastic ones, which are translucent. Luckily, I found some blue ones and used them. As I’d never practiced this hand’s movements the trick was not much good to get the children puzzled, but it was excellent to make them laugh.

Finally, I also took care of the roulette, which was a loved game by the girls, who spent a lot of money to get the prize, which was a simple chocolate bar. Next to these 3 games, there was an extra one in which children had to put into the mouth of 6 bottles 4 rings, if they achieved it they received an award.

Each time children wanted to play one of these games they had to pay $0.25, and I collected thousands of coins. These games were like a magnet. I didn’t stop working in the whole afternoon. It was very exiting.

Although I didn’t have any motion of what exactly was a “kermes” I deal in a great way with it. This idea is connected to that in the You 2.0 text, where it was developed the theme of the fear to unknown experiences. We always have to bear in mind this phrase: “We tend to regret the things we didn’t try more than those we did – even when we fail.”

Reaction towards the Radio Programme

In the radio programme we listened to 3 persons talking about their daily life and their experiences in the new experiment in which they are participating. This experiment consists in people who can work wherever and whenever they want, as long as they do what they had to up to the dead line.

I agree that this work condition is very positive in many aspects of life.

Firstly, with this system you better organize your times. As you are in your home, you have the advantage that you can do other things at the same time you are working. Let’s suppose you are a mother with a baby, you can’t leave home unless you carry your baby with you; and you can’t go to the office to work with your baby because it’s a very uncomfortable situation. With this experiment you can work at home and bring up your baby without any inconvenient.

Let’s take another example, when you are ill you often don’t go to work and get delayed in your activities. With this new system, as you work at home, when you finally feel better you can take your computer to bed and work there. It’s much more convenient, suitable and practical.

Secondly, you save a lot of time. As you don’t have to go to your office, because you stay working at home, you don’t waste a lot of time travelling. And this action takes a lot of time in more highly developed countries, because the distances are very large. So, you make use of that valuable time and as a result have more time to work, what is more producing to the company for which you work (in this radio programme they talked about a best bury).

A negative point may be that sometimes you over exact yourself by working too much and can become a workcoholic. And you can think that giving more benefits to your company is good, but you have to have cleared the notion that every extreme is bad. Not working is as terrible as working too much.

Like the 3 interviewed persons said, they worked so much that they started to lose the habit of relating even with their own families. They spent the whole day working, and when they weren’t working they were sleeping. Everyone in the family lived an independent life, like if they were in different universes.

Also, this people work on the computer. They multitask every second. E.g., while they are checking their e-mails they are IMing and having a regular conversation by phone, all at the same minute; or typing an e-mail while driving, as well as being interviewed when having a bath. They don’t waste even a second; it’s obvious that they reject the concept of time-wasting.

Another disadvantage of using the computer the whole day is that, behind losing family relationship they lose personal contact. And everyone knows that body language is very important to express ourselves. One person of the interview said that instead of talking face to face with his son, they preferred to chat. Maybe in the United States this is a popular habit, but as in my house is not like that it called my attention.

So, I think that as well as you control yourself it’s much more comfortable to work at home, but not leave the habit of practicing physical activity and going out to have some fun with friends.

The good bye

Tomorrow we are going travelling.
3rd polimodal is going to Tafí del Valle to do a “relevamiento” of the rubbish situation up there. I hope it goes us well.

We'll see Caroline and Charlie at Wednesday. Don’t miss us! Why were you upsen Caroline? Hope you are doing well. Kisses!

I spent this whole day at the computer, whether doing Philosophy homework or English one. Yes, I upload as many entries as I could. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me Charlie, but my internet is working extremely wrong and is very slow, although I have installed the faster speed.

At this right moment I’m trying to upload some photos, but I can’t!!! There is an error in the page that it’s freaking me out. I wish I could put these photos in the page, to make it more interesting and nice, but I don’t know what else to do!!! I’ve tried everything. I want Caroline to be here with me so that she explains me how to do this (because she uploaded a photo on her blog while being an inexpert, not like ValeBe or Charlie).

I want to clarify that many of my entries took me more than half an hour to write them, so I want you to consider this.

I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I now can upload the photos! I understood why I couldn’t do it before. Because the photo was too big! I now cut them and that’s all!! THANKS MOM!!!!!!

Yeahh!!!

I will now dream tranquil. I have to prepare my bag for tomorrow and the food and take a bath!

Jesus, help me!

Opinion

We have to do an essay for the English IB of about 1.500 words. And I have already written a little more than 1 thousand words. I liked very much to do this essay, I don’t know why really.

I think that when I analyze a text I like it more! The first copy I wrote of this essay was very bad and I have to confess I did it without thinking, only because I had to do it. But then, I started to get interested in Hemingway’s work, and started to understand all the meanings of his stories.

Furthermore, when I paid attention in class I understood more and more. That’s why I always take notes of what the teacher says.

And the third, fourth and fifth time I revised and corrected my essay, each time I got much more satisfied with the job done.


But this does not only happen in English. For example, in Spanish Language the teachers make us read books. And maybe I didn’t like them very much, but when we do all the analyzing work I end affectionate to those books.

Well, the point was to say that I hope the other 500 words rest of my English essay we can use them to write about Fahrenheit, because I like very much that book. And I think that I can develop it and I would be glad to do it.

Please Please Please, say you will consider this option!

Thank you!

The Baobabs

When I was a child, my father obliged me to read “The little Prince” (“El Principito”) but I didn’t like it.

Last year he suggested me to read it again, and I loved it.

I’m not going to tell you what is the story about, but I recommend you read this book. It is wonderful and has lessons for life.


For my Art work I remembered this pleasant book. I connected it with my art theme and decided to investigate a thing that caught my attention. The famous baobabs, the giant trees.


Yesterday I was looking for some photographs, and the ones I found impressed me. I’ll try to upload some so you see them.


The baobab is an African tree with a stubborn shape, which’s flowers have the figure of a human hand (with fingers). It can achieve a height of 25 metres and the perimeter of its trunk can be superior to 40 metres. Some exemplars have 4.000 years.

It is also called “reverse tree” because its top branches (at summer) took like roots.

The Baobab can store up to 120.000 litres of water, what explains the importance of this giant in the deserted zones of Africa.


When I read all this data I would have probably fall off to the floor if I wasn’t sitting in the chair. It is amazing!!! And wait to see the photos!

They are incredible trees! I am fascinated!!!

Tributo to Queen - I mean: to Vale Becker

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want you to know that I consider you a very special person.

Like you once wrote in your fotolog: “we are companions in everything”. And I want to add one detail: I want it to continue like that!

I think you are a great person! I remember that at the end of the previous year I wanted to write to you a letter saying how much I loved you and why… When I was thinking what to put in the letter my eyes started to get full of tears. That was a very strange feeling: I wanted to tell it to you, I needed to.

But I don’t know what words to use, what to say. There are so many things that I need you to know but I don’t know from where to start. I had told you some things personally, but it’s important to have it written.


It all started last year, when you changed your whole you. When we were in 1st polimodal you were very irritable. But in 2nd all went the other way run, and you were the most sensitive person of the world, and I discovered it throw your fotolog.

In that web page you write how you feel, what you think, your beliefs and reactions, everything. And the photos that you upload are also incredible.

That’s the way I started knowing more about you. And I liked what I discovered. And I like it more each time.


I’m very proud of you.
I want to have you as a friend for all my life.
Never change my view of you.
You are perfect.


I hope you enjoy this day. Your day. Your life.
Never stop smiling.

Love you.

Anto

Last Friday’s activities

I was very excited at the idea that we were going to see a film about the Secession War in the last two modulos of the morning. Unfortunately, miss Laurita didn’t feel alike, and she told us that we had to stay in the class.

Luckily, after that modulo we were aloud to go upstairs and we saw the end of the film. At 12:25 we didn’t listen the bell ring, that’s why I was late to get to Nabila’s car, but they waited me.

At school in the afternoon we had a free hour and then we had a practical lesson on Physics, where the whole room was dark and we were working with lights of different colours. This is a very interesting topic to study.
When I got home, and after having my tea, I took a bath. Then, I went to the computer to search for information so as to do my Art homework. But I felt really tired, that’s why I took a very little nap, until my parents got home.

At that point I had to go to have dinner with them. This is the only time I can talk with them, because they work all day long. I like this part of the day, the night.

After this I went to dress up to go to a pub, where a Chechu’s friend was going to play the electrical guitar in a band. And Vale Becker was coming to my house before going to this pub, that’s why I had to hurry up.

Opportunely, I was almost already when Vale arrived. We finished with the last details and then we waited until the other girls called us (there were more than 45 persons in the chat), in an attempt to turn up at the same time in order to not being along in that place (girl’s stuff, jajaja).

Finally we got there, and Chechu, ValeMe and Juli eat some pizza, and then Gina asked for a “picada”. They ate while catching up with the news. We laughed at the jokes that were said. I enjoyed this fine time.

Afterwards, the famous band interpreted their songs. In my opinion, they can we better if the voice of the principal singer is not tapped by the sound of the guitar or the battery.

In the end, I went home.

Journey to La Pampa

The previous weekend was a large one because it was Easter. That’s why my family planned to go travelling.

In this occasion we decided to go to La Pampa, where we have some relatives. My father’s grandfather founded a town in the limit of the provinces of La Pampa and Buenos Aires, which it’s called “Villa Maza”.

Time passed and there is still a generation of my father’s grandfather living there, who are also my relatives, of course. In fact, although it’s only one little branch of my huge family the ones who live there, they are many persons.

We started our journey at Tuesday afternoon. We went by car all the way. We took the road that goes to San Luis because we had to look for another part of the family, my father’s cousin with his wife, Daniel and Saada. We stayed that night there, and went to sleep after being talking for a long while.

At the following morning we took the breakfast and talked a little bit. (I’ve just decided not to put every time we talked because that’s what we did most of the time; therefore, instead of writing it all over, now you know it so I don’t have to write it any more).

At midday we went to visit a cousin of mine (Daniel’s daughter) which I haven’t seen in my life before. She was also with her two daughters, which are really cute. We spent a great time talking, drinking coffee and watching photos. She is very charming that’s why I liked to meet her.

Then we went to buy some food and started the way to La Pampa with my father’s cousin and her wife. I forgot to say that in our car was also my niece, Estefanía.

At night we arrived to “Villa Maza” and before getting there we called our relatives so as they start making the fire for the “asado”. There I met a part of the family: Dora (my father’s and Daniel’s cousin), Joaquín (Dora’s husband), Julia (Dora’s daughter), Charlie (Julia’s husband), Elina (Julia’s and Charlie’s daughter), Lorenzo (Elina’s brother), Martín (Dora’s son), Mirna (Martín’s wife), Gonzalo (Mirna’s and Martín’s son), Alvarito (Gonzalo’s brother), Fermín (Gonzalo’s and Alvarito’s youngest brother) and Federico (Dora’s nephew, my dad’s nephew and my cousin also). That night we stayed until 4 am talking and catching up with the news.

Villa Maza is in the province of Buenos Aires and my relatives’ fields are in the province of La Pampa. And we went from one to the other (they are separated by a distance of only 2 kilometres).

My father lived his childhood in this town (in the fields), but he hadn’t return there for the last 50 years.

The next day we went to take a walk through the village (7 x 7 squares, very little, jajaja). The funny thing is that we got lost!!! No, I’m kidding… The amusing thing is that my father remembered all the buildings from the town! Many of the houses or stores had changed or disappeared, but he hasn’t forgotten where they used to be 50 years ago. It was a trip to the past. INCREDIBLE.

That same day we met another cousin called Mariano (Federico’s brother).

At afternoon we went again to the fields, where my nephews (jajaja, it’s funny to call them like that cause they have my own age; but I call them “nephews” because you will get lost if I called them “cousins”, for example) where riding horses and driving a “cuatriciclo”.
We went to the “tambo” to see how caws were milked. I like field’s life!

Then, in the house, I met Sebastian (Martín and Mirna’s son) and his girlfriend, and we spend some time talking.

At night we had dinner at the house with other guests. The food was delicious. I met Andrea (Federico’s wife) Rosario, Mercedes and Justina (their 3 daughters) and Carlos Mariano (Martín and Mirna’s son) with his girlfriend. We stayed again until 30 passed 3 am.

At the following day we went to Federico’s home, where we have lunch. He is arming the genealogical tree (I love this subject) and showed us lots of very old pictures, some of which I’ve already seen before and much others that were new for me. It was very interesting and exciting!!! To know where you come from… wow… We also went to the cemetery to see the tombs of our ancestors.

At afternoon we went to the field where my father had once lived!!! Again, he remembered each building, each tree, and lots of anecdotes. The house is changed now from what it was 50 years ago. But, for example, my dad said “there was the house where the workers used to sleep”, and it was true because the actual owner of the field then answered “oh, yes! When we were making the tennis court in that place we found the foundations of some building…”

And that always happened, confirming what my dad said.

That Friday’s night we went to a restaurant to eat a kind of “paeya”, which wasn’t very tasty. And then we went to a super disco to dance. The club was extremely little. That is understandable, what sense to do it bigger for that small town? Jajaja…

The last day (Saturday), we went to eat another “asado” to the field. We ride horses a while before eating. And previously we leave we took some photos of the whole family. One of them is this I update. And we completed one part of the genealogical tree.

Finally, we leaved. We get my niece Estefanía on a bus that went to La Plata, where she lives.

We started our trip back home, and stopped in San Luis again, to sleep. The following morning we continued it. Our car is very comfortable, I slept a lot, jajaja…

We arrived to our house at 7:30 pm approximately. And, after taking a bath and getting some familiars conclusions of our journey while having dinner, I started to do homework.

I was thinking how many homework I had, and so few time to do it. But my brother told me that maybe tomorrow we had no classes. At that instant I called Tamara to ask whether it was true or not, and fortunately she told me that yes! THERE WERE NO CLASSES at Monday!!!!!!! It was the best news!! I would do all what I had to do on Monday.

So, I went to sleep…

Comment about Fahrenheit

Beatty tries to describe the society that discard all unnecessary, time-wasting thoughts. Since the twentieth century, with the huge development of technology everything became faster, instant, easier. But as most books were written before these years in which all kinds of texts are short, people have to spend lot of time reading them. That is why people stopped doing it, because they now read one column, two sentences, a headline, because that’s all what they need, Captain Beatty says.

Nowadays, this tendency is getting stronger. With all the new technologies life is becoming more comfortable (easier, faster, unproblematic, simpler) and time-saving. It only takes 5 minutes to look for information in the internet; with cars you save a lot of time if you have to go somewhere; with cell-phones you can communicate instantly with persons that are in different places; with television you know what is happening at this right moment in the other side of the world; films tells you what a book is about in only 2 hours, and lot further.

Also, people look for the easiest way to do things. E.g.: adolescents are not interested in doing their homework; they don’t’ think about their future, they only plan the way to pass the exams. They don’t mind if they don’t think, learn, reason or analyse different matters.